Thursday, 10 April 2014

On a recent trip to Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand to paint a mural I took along a table top etching press for Esther Remnant, a gifted Nelson print maker, to try out while I was there.It worked. She spent a day printing some of her beautiful lino cuts and they printed fine so she bought it.You can see Esther's work at: www.nesterprints.co.nz/

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ABOUT CLASSIC ETCHING PRESSES

I came out of Art School with two passions; print making and mural painting.I still paint murals of all kinds all over the place but after making my first press from my Grandmother's antique mangle from the family farm I became hooked on making etching presses from recycled antiques.Doesn't leave me much time for print making and I don't have a press of my own because they keep running away to new homes in other artist's studios. Is that not tragic? Still every press I make gets a test print and that will have to do me...